"No man can rob successfully over a period……" — Theodore Sturgeon

"No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs."

— Theodore Sturgeon

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60 Quotes by Theodore Sturgeon

Theodore Sturgeon has 60 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Ninety percent of everything is crap.
A science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, that would not have happened…
If ever you want to touch the hand and the heart of God Almighty, you can do it through the…
Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud.
If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?
Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.
It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go…
I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.
I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against…
The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an…
When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it.

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More Man Quotes

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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a… — Hannah Arendt
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always… — Hannah Arendt
I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let… — Pietro Aretino
Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short… — Aristotle
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle

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